Agenda February 26

1 Turn in Alien Juice Bar
2 HW CH 8 Directed Reading Packet p137-153 do all Target Reading due Friday, March 4.
3 CH 8 Marking the Text due Friday, March 4.


Last Day for Make up work for Trimester 2 report card is Tuesday, March 1.
Trimester Agenda and Journal Check Wednesday, March 2.
Last day for Make Up Tests for Trimester 2 report card is Thursday, March 3 after school.

Agenda February 25

1 J81 CH 8 Pre Reading, due today
2 J82 CH 8 Vocabulary due Friday, March 4
3 J83 CH 8 Constructing Meaning due Friday, March 4

Last Day for Make up work for Trimester 2 report card is Tuesday, March 1.
Trimester Agenda and Journal Check Wednesday, March 2.
Last day for Make Up Tests for Trimester 2 report card is Thursday, March 3 after school.

Agenda February 24

1 Check CH7 HW, J76 Vocabulary, J77 Constructing Meaning,  WS Solubility Curve, Activity Solutions, Suspensions, Colloids, and Activity Acids and Bases Observations.
2 Check CH7 Marking the Text
3 Return Work (if time)
Coming soon: End of the trimester grades for Agenda and Journal check.  Work Habits grade is based on the number of missing assignments for the first 55 assignments for this trimester.

Agenda February 27

1 Trade and Grade CH 8 tests

I am calculating work habits grades based on how missing assignments a student has.

Agenda February 22

I thought an extra day of vacation would be a good thing.
Due to the annual 8th Grade hearing test, today's work's due date will be extended to Friday, February 26.  The bad news is that the program will not run on Apple products because the good people (Steve Jobs) at Apple do not support Flash media and this program, created at that fly by night institution, UC Berkeley,  used Flash to create this program.  Some things are just not objective.  Or, maybe, All things are subjective.
1 Alien Juice Bar Lab due Fri., Feb. 26

Agenda February 12

1 CH 7 Test Solubility
2 CH 7 Test Acids and Bases
3 Turn in any work you want me to keep over the break that would have been turned in today but will be checked after the break on a Tuesday [HW Packet, WS Solubility Curve, Activity Solution, Suspension, and Colloid Lab, and Activity Acid Base Observation Lab]

Agenda February 11

1 Video Modern Marvels Acids
2 CFA Solutions
3 While I was swimming laps this morning I thought that because the tests may take some students a great deal of time, I did not want to use test taking time for scoring HW, vocabulary, Marking the Text, etc.  I decided (somewhere near 750 yards) that I would not have the students score those assignments tomorrow, Friday as I had originally intended.  Instead, I will collect any stamped assignments students wish to turn in and hold them until after the break.  Homework packets too.  Then, if students did not do the work on time, they would still have the whole vacation week to finish (and by extension, have to explain to parents why they had vacation homework).  I think about a lot of things while swimming for half an hour.  Mostly it is county and how I hurt or the last song on the car radio but sometimes it is planning how to best serve my students. [You don't have to copy this #3 all down]
4 Miniatures Club Aerodrome 3.0 and Frostgrave

Agenda February 10

1 Activity Acid Base Observations Lab Day 2
2 Review and Check WS Solubility Curve

Agenda February 9

1 Journal Acid and Base Properties
2 Activity Acid and Base Observations Lab Day 1
3 WS Solubility Curve due tomorrow
4 Test Solubility, Acid, and Base on Friday Feb 12
5 Make up tests Thursday after school.  Leadership students who will miss classes on Friday take the test Thursday after school.

Agenda February 8 Happy New Year

I have spent all these years thinking I was born in the year of the dog.  It turns out that I am a rooster.   And a Fire Rooster to boot.  So here's to a happy lunar new year with lots of BBQ Chicken.
1 WS Solubility Curve due Thursday
2 Journal 79 Solubility

Agenda February 5

1 J78 (continued) The Tyndall Effect
2 Activity Solutions, Suspensions, and Colloids Lab. due today or Monday

Agenda February 4

1 J78 types of Solutions
2 HW CH7 Directed Reading p123-136  Target Reading p124, 131, and 134.  Due Fri. Feb. 12
3 CH7 Marking the Text (all Section Summaries) due Fri. Feb. 12
4 Make Up Test Day Thursday, Feb. 11

January 34 (the last day of January)

1 J 77 CH7 Pre Reading due today
2 J 76 CH7 Vocabulary due Friday, Feb. 12
3 J 75  CH7 Constructing Meaning due Friday, Feb. 12
4 make up Test day will be Thurs., Feb. 11

Agenda January 33

1 Test Chapter 6

Lots of sniffles again from students.  Remember they should be symptom free for 24 hours before they come back.  Missing a day in middle school will not academically hurt them.  High School is another matter.  They need to start staying healthy.

Agenda January 32 (Just enjoying my calendar a few extra days in January)

1 Activity Zinc + Hydrochloric Acid Lab due today.  This went well today with some updated techniques and procedures.  Not as stressful as previous years.
2 CH6 Test tomorrow